The most important third generation (3G) cellular communications standard is based on wideband CDMA (WCDMA). Receivers based on TDMA style channel equalization at the chip level have been proposed for a WCDMA downlink employing long spreading sequences to ensure adequate performance even with a high number of active users. These receivers equalize the… (More)

— A distributed solution is proposed for the coordinated multi-cell multi-antenna minimum power beamformer design problem with single-antenna users. The minimum power beamformers are obtained locally at each base station (BS) relying on limited backhaul information exchange between adjacent BSs. The original centralised problem is reformulated such that the… (More)